Library Guides: Latin American Studies: All Disciplines: Find Primary Sources Online

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Looking for primary sources online? There are a plethora of resources on the web to find digitized printed books, manuscripts, newspapers, images, archival documents, music, film, and video with Latin American & Caribbean content.

This section is organized into 3 geographic sections with a mix of primary-source types:

World: databases with digital primary sources from all over the globe
Latin America & Iberia: websites that cover multiple countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and/or the Iberian Peninsula
Country-Specific: websites dedicated to the patrimony of distinct countries

And 3 sections dedicated to specific media:

News & Newspapers: Visit our extensive research guide to News & Newspapers: Latin America & the Caribbean
Film & Video: portals and databases for cinema, performance, ethnography, and other types of video
Music: databases and other resources to listen and study Latin American & Caribbean music

World

The following databases contain digitized content from all over the world, including texts from and about Latin America and the Caribbean.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Artstor
A digital image library of community-built collections of art, architecture, humanities, and science images with descriptive information, as well as software tools useful for teaching and research. Includes 195,486 images from Latin America & Iberia and counting.

Old Maps Online
This gateway to historical maps in libraries throughout the world lets you zoom in on particular regions and limit by date.
UNESCO World Digital Library
A collaborative project between UNESCO and many important cultural institutions around the world, this library combines prints, photos, film clips, and map images about every UNESCO member on a variety of topics.

HathiTrust Digital Library
A partnership of academic & research institutions offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Note: not all titles are available as full-text.

Google Books
Many older books that have no copyright are available on Google Books for free.

Latin America & Iberia

SALALM Digitized Primary Sources
This site provides links to open access digitized collections of primary sources for Latin American and Caribbean history. The materials listed are freely available to the public and were created or are hosted at an academic institution associated with SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials).
Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)
A gateway to digitized books, manuscripts, images, musical scores, newspapers, magazines, and sound recordings from the national libraries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay. Allows you to search all the libraries' collections at once and then links you out to that library's webpage.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
This major academic portal provides access to thousands of full-text literary works of historic and contemporary Spanish and Latin American authors as well as providing critical background and analysis.
Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española
This directory of open access resources contains more than 8000 links to digitized works: diccionarios, gramáticas, libros de historia de la lengua, de ortografía, ortología, prosodia, métrica, diálogos, etc.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL): Latin American Materials Project (LAMP)
Acquires, preserves, and maintains microform and digital collections of unique, rare, and bulky or voluminous Latin American research materials.

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LAMP encompasses such topics as: Afro-Brazilian cultures, 19th-20th century mining in Bolivia, public opinion in Argentina from 1958-1973, human rights violations by Brazil’s Military Supreme Court from 1965-1979, 20th-century leftist political movements in Argentina, 19th-century Mexican intellectual history, Argentine folklore compiled in 1921, British enterprises in Latin America, Haitian periodicals, mid-20th-century Puerto Rican newspapers and politics, the Cabildo Secular de Potosí (1562-1817), ministerial reports of Latin America, the Workers’ Union of Buenos Aires (1916-1943), children’s protection under Pinochet, religion periodicals, and U.S. oil interests in early 20th-century Mexico.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
Full-text books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas. The collection is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, and religious history.

Biblioteca Nacional de España: Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
The Biblioteca Digital Híspanica is the Digital Library of the National Library of Spain. It features books, manuscripts (theatrical/literary), drawings, photographs, engravings, cartographic materials, music scores, sound recordings, newspapers, and magazines from Spain & Latin America.
Biblioteca Nacional de España: Hemeroteca Digital
Contains over 567 digitized magazines and journals published in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Cuba, the Philippines, France, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal - Biblioteca Digital
Digitized books from the National Library of Portugal, which includes holdings about or produced in Brazil and the wider Lusophone world.
Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
The Digitial Library of the National Library of France has 3 collections dedicated to the Americas: France-Brazil; Images of North & Central America of the Geographic Society of France (1850-1950); and Images of South America of the Geographic Society of France (1850-1950).
The John Carter Brown Library - JCB Online
Digital book and image collections of holdings of the John Carter Brown Library, which specializes in primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825.
The Latin American Library at Tulane Digital Collections
The LAL has digitized four important collections: Early Images of Latin America, Cuban-American Radionovelas (1963-1970), Mesoamerican Painted Manuscripts, and Mexican Incunabula (1559-1600).
LLILAS Benson Digital Collections (University of Texas, Austin)
The Benson Library at UT Austin has a rich array of digital primary sources including the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, the Human Rights Documentation Initiative, the Latin American Government Documents Archive, Onda Latina, Primeros Libros de las Américas, VOCES Oral History Project, early maps, and more.
University of Florida Digital Collections
The University of Florida Digital Collections for Latin America & the Caribbean include dLOC (Digital Library of the Caribbean), Panama and the Canal, The Vodou Archive, South American Collections, Popular Religion in Brazil, the Jaqi Collection of Aymara, Jaqaru, and Kawki Language Resources, Women in Development, and Mexican & Cuban Film Posters.
University of Wisconsin Madison: Ibero-American Electronic Text Series
This series lets you browse titles digitized by the University of Wisconsin-Madison by region and time period. You'll also find the titles in this collection cataloged individually in the Tulane Library Catalog.
Calisphere
Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's libraries, archives, and museums. Over 1,125,000 images, texts, and recordings, thousands pertaining to Latin America and Iberia.
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Digital Collections
Wide variety of primary source collections from the leading Latin American studies research institute in Germany.

Black Short Fiction and Folklore
Contains short stories and folktales from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Black Women Writers
Includes fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries written by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
hosted at Vanderbilt University, the SSDA is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. Its largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church; the baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins.
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute has three major digital projects--Dominican Music in the United States, First Blacks in the Americas, and Dominican Veterans in World War II--and other online resources.

Pan American World Airways Records
Housed at the University of Miami, the Pan American World Airways digital collection features annual reports, brochures, directories, periodicals, and timetables from 1929 to 1991.

Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection - Harvard University
Harvard's collections of more than 5,000 scarce and unique 19th century Latin American pamphlets contain political and social commentary. Addressed to fellow citizens, pamphlets document the emergence of the Latin American colonies as independent states and illuminate aspects of their populations' social and cultural life.
Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera - Princeton University
Princeton's Latin American Ephemera Collection contains thousands of digitized pamphlets, brochures, flyers, posters, placards and other printed items created since around the last quarter of the 20th century by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and activities. The vast majority are rare, hard-to-find primary sources unavailable elsewhere.
Twentieth Century Latin American Pamphlets - Rutgers University
This database contains annotated bibliographic citations to a collection of pamphlets, grey literature and ephemera related to political, economic, and social conditions in Latin America during the twentieth century. While the collection spans the period 1910 to 1995, the bulk of the material dates from the volatile Cold War era. With its principal strength in rare contemporary publications such as pamphlets, conference proceedings, political manifestos, speeches, serials, statistical reports, and government documents, this collection give a unique perspective on left and right wing movements in Latin America. Among the most important subjects are human rights, land reform, the labor movement, foreign policy, industrialization, and political parties.
International Digital Ephemera Project - UCLA
The International Digital Ephemera Project is an initiative to digitize, preserve and provide broad public access to print, images, multimedia, and social networking resources produced worldwide. Currently includes several Cuban collections.

Digital National Security Archive
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Includes a lot of documentation of U.S. interventions in Latin America, especially during the Cold War.

Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino - DigitArq
Digitized documents from the Historical Overseas Archive of Portugal, which is dedicated to the history of Portuguese maritime colonization, exploration, trade, and travel.
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo - DigitArq
Digitized documents held in the National Archive of Portugal, which includes holdings about or produced in Brazil and the wider Lusophone world.
PARES: Portal de Archivos Españoles
Portal to all the digitized archives of the Spanish State, including those pertaining to the governance of Latin America & the Caribbean in the age of Spanish Empire.
Real Academia de la Historia - Biblioteca Digital
Digitized holdings of the Royal Academy of History of Spain. The academy's archives include codices, manuscripts, and printed books spanning the Middle Ages to the present day pertaining to the history of Spain and Spanish America.
Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA)
Section of LANIC portal that contains a list, ordered by country, of links to the top level archived version of all ministry and presidency Web sites captured as part of the LAGDA project.

Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Caribbean Literature
Contains poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean region during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Alma Jordan Library's Digital Collections
Digital facsimiles of objects held at the University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad, including posters, ephemera, photographs, manuscripts, and more.
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA)
Partnered with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLOC) and housed in Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks (NULabTMN), the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a highly interactive digital scholars lab for the collaborative research and study of pre-C20 Caribbean literature.
French and Francophone Digital Humanities Projects: Caribbean
Linked list of DH projects relating to the Francophone Caribbean.

Out of the Wings: Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation
Contain details of plays written in Spanish in different periods and countries, as well as information about their authors, sample translations into English, synopses, performance histories and many other tools for interpreting the featured drama.

Latin American Travelogues - Brown University Library
Digital collection of Latin American travel accounts from the 16th-19th centuries in Brown University's Special Collections. Includes browse-by-country function, essays, and bibliography.

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.

The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry. Topics covered include: Emigration and daily life, Missionary Work, World War I, World War II, Boxer War in China, Frontier Life in America, Personal Enlightenment through travel, Education and Finishing School, Sightseeing, Holidays and Tourism, Customs, culture and leisure.

Black Women Writers
Includes fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries written by women from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Latin American Women Writers
A Collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
From the everyday to the extraordinary, these rare diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women.

The project has wide ranging interdisciplinary appeal, offering first hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry. Topics covered include: Emigration and daily life, Missionary Work, World War I, World War II, Boxer War in China, Frontier Life in America, Personal Enlightenment through travel, Education and Finishing School, Sightseeing, Holidays and Tourism, Customs, culture and leisure.

Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports (DLLACS)
Online bibliography that points scholars to resources for the study of sports and recreational activities across the continent--a clearinghouse to identify primary historical sources relating to sport, recreation, and physical education, their location, and scope.

Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape
Listen to audio recordings of prominent Hispanic writers including Nobel Laureates Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz, and renowned writers Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar reading from their works at the Library of Congress.
Biblioteca Ayacucho
Downloadable classics of Latin American literature and political thought.

Country-Specific

Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas
Digitizations of magazines and periodicals representing key moments in the development of cultural journalism in Argentina, accompanied by indices and brief critical essays and articles.
Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno - Colecciones Digitales
Digitized holdings of the National Library of Argentina. Searchable by keywords and collections: books, incunables, journals and magazines, manuscripts, photographs, maps, sheet music, archives, audio, video, and publications of the library.

Borges Electronic Resources
Covers materials relevant to the life and works of Jorge Luis Borges. NOTE: Available for on-campus access ONLY.

Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
The Presidential Messages database is a collection of digital full text presidential messages of Argentina and Mexico from the early 19th century to the present. There are plans to add the presidential messages of other countries in the future.

Sur Digital Archive
Full-text of Revista Sur, the influential literary magazine published in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1931-1992.

Disappeared Children in Argentina: Rita Arditti’s Interviews with the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
Digital humanities project of interviews realized in the 1990's by Dr. Rita Arditti, an Argentinean college professor living in the United States, with members of the Association of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.
Declassified Documents Relating to Human Rights Abuses in Argentina
Records released by the United States National Security Council in 2016 relating to human rights abuses committed in Argentina between January 1, 1975, and December 31, 1984.

Arquivo Nacional
The National Archive of Brazil has databases for the following collections, many digitized: Sistema de Informações do Arquivo Nacional, Acervo Judiciário, Entrada de Estrangeiros no Brasil, Família Ferrez, Memórias Reveladas, Movimentação de Portugueses no Brasil (1808 - 1842), História da Holanda e Holandeses no Brasil, Ofício de Notas da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Processos do Supremo Tribunal Federal, do Supremo Tribunal da Justiça e da Casa da Suplicação, Biblioteca Maria Beatriz Nascimento, and SECOM (Serviço de Comunicações, 1940-1959).
Biblioteca de literaturas de língua portuguesa
Brazilian and Portuguese works of literature fully digitized and freely accessible online.
Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil - Acervo Digital
The National Library of Brazil has digitized 1.8 million documents and counting.
Brasiliana Eletronica (Coleção Brasiliana)
This collection, originally edited by the Companhia Editora Nacional from 1931 to 1993, includes 415 books treating Brazil by Brazilian and foreign authors in fields of History, Sociology, Anthropology and Natural History, among others.
Brazilian Government Documents
Digital collection of executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national government between 1821 and 1993, including presidential reports and messages, the Almanak of the Brazilian Royal Court, and ministerial reports. Project carried out by the Center for Research Libraries' Latin American Materials Project (LAMP).
Domínio Público - Biblioteca Virtual do Ministério da Educação do Brasil
Open access portal sponsored by the Brazilian government geared at promoting access to Brazilian literary, artistic, and academic works, as well as music and audio.
Memórias reveladas
Database of documents drawing from a variety of archives that unveil the human rights violations of the dictatorship of 1964-1985.

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library
Manoel de Oliveira Lima (1867-1928) was a Brazilian diplomat, journalist, historian and book collector whose career spanned Brazil's transition from empire to republic. Brazilian history and literature was the central focus of his writing and collecting. This database's monographs collection offers access to approximately 3,800 publications from the mid-16th through the early 20th century. The roughly 4,000 pamphlets in the collection date from the 19th to the early 20th century and are on Brazilian subjects or by Brazilian authors.

Abdias Nascimento Collection
Documents, images, videos, plays, articles, and poetry connected to Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011), an Afro-Brazilian artist, scholar, and politician. He founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944 and later became the first Afro-Brazilian elected to the Senate in Brazil.
Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo
O Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo - APESP - disponibiliza em seu Repositório Digital documentos, álbuns, fotografias, periódicos, livros, jornais, revistas, mapas, entre outros.
Brasiliana Eletrônica
Editada originalmente pela Companhia Editora Nacional no período de 1931 a 1993, a Coleção Brasiliana reúne 415 títulos ( 439 volumes) de autores brasileiros e estrangeiros. O Projeto Brasiliana Eletrônica digitalizou todo o acervo da Coleção e o exibe de forma aberta neste website.
Instituto Brasileiro de Geografía e Estatística (IBGE)
The IBGE digital library has digitized government reports, historical photos, data (GIS), and more pertaining to Brazilian geography and statistics.

Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile
The National Library of Chile has digitized more than 165,000 objects in its collections, in addition to "Memoria Chilena," a project consisting of 770-plus works on Chilean history and culture.
Retablo de Literatura Chilena (Universidad de Chile)
Provides some full-text works of major Chilean authors. Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Nicanor Parra, and Vicente Huidobro.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos - Biblioteca Digital
Digitized texts, manuscripts, photographs, iconography, objects, videos, and audio recordings aimed at giving visibility to the human rights violations committed under the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990).
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos - Archivo de Fondos y Colecciones
Archives related to human rights violations committed under the Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990).
Cantos Cautivos
Cantos Cautivos is an archive of music sung and heard in political detention and torture centres in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The memory of these experiences is an important fragment of the lives of those who resisted, fought and shared their stories for this project.
Servicio Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural - Colecciones digitales
Digitization project of Chile's Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM). Thematic areas include: Archeology, Art, Artisanry, Natural Sciences, Conservation, Education, Photography, Gender, History, Literature, Museums, Music, Indigenous Cultures, and Religion.

Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia - Biblioteca Digital
The National Library of Colombia has searchable digital collections including the following thematic areas: authors, Bogotá, musical documentation, audiovisual holdings, photographs, historical photographs of Cartagena de Indias, graphic holdings, newspapers, pre-modern and modern books, the Ministry of Culture, Historical Archive of Medellín, and Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República en Colombia
Digitized books, images, audio, video, thematic projects, and educational materials related to Colombia's cultural patrimony.
Archivo General de la Nación
Website of Colombia's National Archive.

Biblioteca Digital SINABI
Digital Library of Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas de Costa Rica (SINABI), including books, newspapers, images, audio, video, maps, music, and more.

Biblioteca Digital Cubana
Portal to digitized content for the study of Cuba with links to libraries, general archives, and newspaper, map, and photographic archives.
Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) Digital Collections
Digitized manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries rich Cuban Heritage Collection.
Digital Aponte
A site dedicated to the life and work of José Antonio Aponte, a free man of color, carpenter, artist, and alleged leader of a massive antislavery conspiracy and rebellion in colonial Cuba in 1811-1812. In this website, you can read an annotated version of the trial record of Aponte’s descriptions of the “book of paintings" and visit the image gallery to investigate the visual culture of turn of the nineteenth-century Havana.
Feminism in Cuba: Nineteenth through Twentieth Century Archival Documents
This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women. 1898-1958. Stoner Collection.
Cuba’s History and People in Pictures
Over 100 vintage photographs of Cuba, 1860-1965, from the private collection of Ramiro Fernández.
International Digital Ephemera Project - UCLA
The International Digital Ephemera Project is an initiative to digitize, preserve and provide broad public access to print, images, multimedia, and social networking resources produced worldwide. Currently includes several Cuban collections.

CUNY Dominican Studies Institute
The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute has three major digital projects--Dominican Music in the United States, First Blacks in the Americas, and Dominican Veterans in World War II--and other online resources.

REDICCES (Repositorio de Ciencia y Cultura de El Salvador)
Portal to digital collections of libraries and archives throughout El Salvador.

CIRMA: Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica
CIRMA has two digital collections: Fototeca Guatemala and Archivo Histórico.
AHPN: Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive
The discovery of the National Police Historical Archive in 2005 opened an extensive and timely resource for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region. This site currently includes over 10 million scanned images of documents from the National Police Historical Archive.

Biblioteca Virtual de las Letras de Honduras.
Open access portal to hundreds of Honduran literary works.

Biblioteca Digital Mexicana (BDMx)
La Biblioteca Digital Mexicana, BDMx, es una plataforma digital multi-institucional: El Archivo General de la Nación, La Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), el Centro de Estudios de Historia de México CEHM- Carso, y el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

Classic Mexican Cinema Online
Covers Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960). Includes popular movie periodicals, film flyers, and scrapbooks. Access reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements.

Códices de México
Digitalización de los códices antiguos resguardados en la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México.
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages
The Presidential Messages database is a collection of digital full text presidential messages of Argentina and Mexico from the early 19th century to the present. There are plans to add the presidential messages of other countries in the future.
Escritos de mujeres
La colección Escritos de Mujeres siglos XVI al XVIII tiene como propósito poner a disposición del público lector, en cuidadas ediciones, las obras que escribieron las mujeres de aquella época.
Guía de memorias de Hacienda de México
This database of government reports of Mexican haciendas from 1822 to 1910 is one of the most important qualitative and quantitative sources of information about the public administration of Mexico in the 19th century.
The Maya Hieroglyphic Codices
This site features a searchable translation and analysis of four codices (screenfold books) painted by Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. The codices contain information about Maya beliefs and rituals, as well as everyday activities, all framed within an astronomical and calendrical context.
Mesolore
Mesolore is a bilingual resource for scholars and students of Mesoamerica (Nahua & Ñudzavui). It Includes 3 interactive 16th-century indigenous documents from Central Mexico and 3 from Oaxaca, plus archives of alphabetic documents from the 1520s to the 1960s, introductory tutorials on indigenous writing and culture in Central Mexico and Oaxaca, an interactive Atlas of Mesoamerica, and video and audio commentaries by Scholars on Mesoamerica’s past and present.
A Nation Emerges: 65 Years of Photography in Mexico
Photographs of Mexico from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century from the special collections of the Getty Research Institute.
Sabino Osuna Photographs of the Mexican Revolution
Glass plate negatives, photographs, and lantern slides of the Mexican Revolution taken by photographer Sabino Osuna. Includes images of Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, Emiliano Zapata, and Pancho Villa, as well as street warfare during La Decena Trágica. Digitized by the UC Riverside Libraries.
Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec
Ticha allows users to access and explore many interlinked layers of texts from a corpus of Colonial Valley Zapotec manuscripts and printed books, including images of the original documents, transcriptions, translations, and linguistic analysis, including morphological interlinearization.

Memoria Centroamericana (IHNCA)
Project of the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica (IHNCA). The mission of Memoria Centroamericana is to make available the most important Central American historical, literary, visual and audio documents in digital form to the general public.
Ama y no Olvida: Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad
"Ama y No Olvida: Museo de la Memoria contra la Impunidad" se construyó con el objetivo principal de contribuir a dignificar a las víctimas del Estado de Nicaragua a partir de abril 2018 y honrar su memoria.

Biblioteca Digital Panameña
La Biblioteca Digital Panameña es una colección básica de obras en formato digital representativas de la vida y la cultura del país. Es parte del proyecto Biblioteca Virtual Iberoamericana y Caribeña El Dorado, coordinado por la UNESCO. Los textos completos de las obras recopiladas están disponibles a través de este sitio en Internet y en CD-ROM para consultas locales en la Sala Panameña de la Biblioteca Nacional.

Biblioteca Nacional de Perú - Biblioteca Digital
El sitio de Guaman Poma (Det Kongelige Bibliotek)
Digital facsimile of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s autograph manuscript of “El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno,” a highly unique 17th-century manuscript. The "Corónica" is one of the few full-length books produced by an Indian in colonial Spanish America, and is particularly noteworthy for its biting critiques of the Spanish colonial administration and elaborate illustrations. The website includes annotated transcriptions alongside the images of the illustrated manuscript.
Archivo General de la Nación
Database of digitized documents from the AGN of Peru.

CENTRO Puerto Rican Studies Center Digital Collections
A place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Puerto Rican Citizenship Archives Project
The United States annexed Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 and has since governed the island as an unincorporated territory. Since 1898, Congress has debated upwards of 100 bills and enacted 11 laws extending four distinct types of citizenship to Puerto Rico. This website provides a documentary history of the federal citizenship legislation for Puerto Rico.
Delis Negrón Digital Archive
The Delis Negrón digital archive captures the life and legacy of the Puerto Rican writer born in 1901, who was also director, editor, poet, writer, English professor and activist throughout his residency in south Texas and Mexico City during the twentieth century.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers covers thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers –including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1
A digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture since colonial times until 1960.
Hispanic American Newspapers
Digitized newspapers from 1808 to 1980 from the collection of the University of Houston.
Latino Literature
Contains more than 100,000 pages of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.

Borderlands Archives Cartography
Dedicated to locating, digitizing, and facilitating the access of nineteenth and mid-twenty periodicals from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands through a digital map and other data visualization platforms.
CENTRO Puerto Rican Studies Center Digital Collections
A place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Chicana Diasporic
Chicana Diasporic, A Nomadic Journey of the Activist Exiled, is a media rich, annotated Scalar research hub that highlights a political/ideological journey of the women of the Chicana Caucus of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) from 1973 to 1979. Presented in a museum collection format, this interdisciplinary exploration of the Chicana Caucus includes speeches, correspondence, event posters, photographs, filmed interview clips, an introductory narrative and timeline that defines the Caucus’ history, structure and purpose, and their national impact on 1970s second wave feminism.
Herman Baca Collection - Chicano Rights Activism
The papers of Herman Baca, a National City, California, Chicano rights activist and prominent member of the Mexican-American community, document the contributions and accomplishments made by Herman Baca and the Committee on Chicano Rights. Digitized by the UC San Diego Library.
The Latina History Project
LHP is a faculty-student research project that aims to enhance undergraduate education and provide resources on Latina/o and Chicana/o history in the Central Texas region. The LHP collects oral histories from past and present members of Southwestern community as well as several activists, including key figures in the Chicana/o Movement in Texas.
Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience
The Onda Latina Collection consists of 226 digitally preserved audio programs including interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns from the radio series "The Mexican American Experience" and "A esta hora conversamos" the Longhorn Radio Network, 1976-1982.
Puerto Rican Citizenship Archives Project
The United States annexed Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 and has since governed the island as an unincorporated territory. Since 1898, Congress has debated upwards of 100 bills and enacted 11 laws extending four distinct types of citizenship to Puerto Rico. This website provides a documentary history of the federal citizenship legislation for Puerto Rico.
A Visual History of Chicano/a Literature
Provides users with a quick index to the history of Chicana/o literature. Unlike traditional bibliographies, this page relies on images of book covers in order to familiarize users with creative books by Chicanas/os.

News & Newspapers

News & Newspapers: Latin America & the Caribbean
Guide to finding contemporary and historical newspapers, as well as radio and video news, produced in and with coverage of Latin America & the Caribbean.

Film & Video

Streaming Resources at Tulane
Guide to the varied streaming resources and platforms available to the Tulane community, including Kanopy, Swank, Ethnographic Videos Online, News Video, and More.
Latin American & Spanish Videos Freely Available on the Internet: A Guide to Web Resources
This excellent guide to finding Latin American & Spanish film, TV, and video allows you to search by subject and browse by country/region. Created by Jesús Alonso-Regalado, Librarian for Latin American/Hispanic Studies at SUNY-Albany.
Video News: Latin America, U.S. & U.K.
Links to video news archives and resources for Latin America, the U.S. and U.K:

Kanopy
A platform for accessing and viewing a variety of streaming film collections. Currently includes the Media Education Foundation (MEF) collection focusing on gender, race, media, culture, and identity, as well as selected titles from the Criterion Collection. New titles added periodically.

Cinépata
Online archive of Latin American independent cinema.
Cinemargentino
Streaming film and documentaries from Argentina.
Cine Ar
Argentine cinema online.

Classic Mexican Cinema Online
Covers Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960). Includes popular movie periodicals, film flyers, and scrapbooks. Access reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements.

Ethnographic Video Online
Multimedia collection that covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
An online archive of rare video documenting social performance in the Americas.

Music

Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Sounds of all regions from every continent to include genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Includes 2700 albums of music from Latin America & the Caribbean.
Naxos Music Library
The world's largest online classical music library. Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Includes hundreds of albums of music from Latin America & the Caribbean.

Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection
This collection includes a historical introduction describing the creation of electroacoustic music in Latin America; a selection of 558 compositions created using electroacoustic media by Latin American composers between 1957 and 2007, available for listening online; Biographies and interviews with composers; graphic material including scores and pictures; and finding aids for 390 composers and 1723 compositions.

Cantos Cautivos
Cantos Cautivos is an archive of music sung and heard in political detention and torture centres in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The memory of these experiences is an important fragment of the lives of those who resisted, fought and shared their stories for this project.